[Python-Dev] Warn about mktemp once again?

[Guido van Rossum]

IMO mkstemp() is a major pain because you have to use raw file
descriptors on the return value. I'd much rather recommend
[Named]TemporaryFile which return streams.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Guido> Have we documented the alternatives well enough?
>
>  I suppose we could document explicitly how to use mkstemp() in place of
>  mktemp(), but the difference in return value is fairly modest:
>
>     >>> tempfile.mktemp()
>     '/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpV_5OLi'
>     >>> tempfile.mkstemp()
>     (3, '/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpmS7K4T')
>
>  and the argument list is quite similar as well:
>
>     >>> help(tempfile.mktemp)
>     Help on function mktemp in module tempfile:
>
>     mktemp(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None)
>     ...
>     >>> help(tempfile.mkstemp)
>     Help on function mkstemp in module tempfile:
>
>     mkstemp(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None, text=False)
>     ...
>
>     Guido> In most cases NamedTemporaryFile will work, ...
>
>  It's API seems to be a bit farther from the mktemp API than that of mkstemp.
>
>  Skip
>



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